Riccardo Vicedomini

TL;DR: The draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome of Norway spruce (Picea abies), the first available for any gymnosperm, is presented, revealing numerous long (>10,000 base pairs) introns, gene-like fragments, uncharacterized long non-coding RNAs and short RNAs, which opens up new genomic avenues for conifer forestry and breeding.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as mentioned in this paper presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as discussed by the authors presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: This paper presented a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities over three years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban microbial ecosystem.

TL;DR: GAM-NGS (Genomic Assemblies Merger for Next Generation Sequencing) is a tool able to merge two or more assemblies in order to improve contiguity and correctness and avoids global alignment between contigs, making its strategy unique among other assembly reconciliation tools.